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imagine, everybody would think like that...
...why should a German learn english?
...why should any of the spanish speaking people learn english?
...why should the Chinese learn english?

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bolzano

well i am a german native speaker and there is practically no use for the language outside germany/austria/swiss

if i'd have to choose a foreign language i'd pick something with a bit more global impact like english, spanish or chinese

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oligovore

a good reason would be, someone wants to study at one of the german univeritys?
they aren´t that bad, but they don´t teach in english, right?

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bolzano

well, depends on what you want to study. but yes, in that case its a good reason. universitys are pretty good.

computer science has typically up to 70% of courses in english

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Lexington

Not really. I'm also studying computer science in Germany and all of my courses were in German except for one which was a Master seminar. Only the Master courses are in English at my university.

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bolzano

well, on the university where i studied computer science there were plenty of english courses. some switched language every semester, so one could choose between german and english.

well i do not know how its now after the crippling done with the changes to bachelor/master system

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Lexington

I think it's a little different since the diploma is something like the master today. seems like they integrated english courses earlier when you studied

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bolzano

that could be the case...the lectures in the first 2 semesters were also exclusively germean if i remember correctly, perhaps they extended this to the full bachelor part.

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Saotoshi

depneds on what you study and where. Some do. But i totally agree with you. If Poland was my dream country for whatever reason, and I want to spend a lot of time there, why not? ;D dont get bolzano, seriously;D

btw also german here^^

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bolzano

yeah..if you want to spend more than a few month in an country - learn the language.

if not, do it if you have another good reason ;)

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Lexington

Why do you even live? Actually it wouldn't matter if you would die now or in 70 years. Earth will only last for another 4 billion years and after that everything will be forgotten.

But guess what. Sometimes you can do things just for the fun of it.

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oligovore

wow, well said

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bolzano

well, from a geological perspective it sure does not matter.

well, i can imagine things more fun, but that everyone can descide for him/herself.

thats why i asked...since its not really practical if you do not plan to spend a longer period of time in the country, there might be another reason (be it "just for fun") to learn that language

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sublime2k

There are torrents with tens of gigabytes of learning resources, look them up.

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sensualshakti

I find Memrise to be very useful; it has different courses of which you can pick what you need (verbs, grammar, nouns...) Good luck!
And you can find Schritte books on the torrents, they are really good.

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Chiasm

not exactly what you are looking for, but italki.com is a good place to find partners for language exchange (or teachers if you are willing to spend some moneyz).

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